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Re:Bumble S-1 by jdminhbg on Friday January 15, 2021 @03:03PM (#25795589)
> It really looks like you're comparing the lives of human beings to young people having fun. What's the exchange rate?

It's the Quality-Adjusted Life Year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year

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Re:Bumble S-1 by philsnow on Friday January 15, 2021 @06:26PM (#25798023)
yikes, that's chilling.

> The method of ranking interventions on grounds of their cost per QALY gained ratio (or ICER) is controversial because it implies a quasi-utilitarian calculus to determine who will or will not receive treatment.

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Re:Bumble S-1 by jdminhbg on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:57PM (#25798776)
Hardly chilling. Simply pretending tradeoffs don't exist doesn't make them go away.
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